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Blank Trading Card Templates

A free blank trading card template you fill in yourself: type your own card title where our sport cards print the sport, add a photo and a name, and download a print-ready PDF. Five designs, three sizes, nothing pre-printed — for the sports we don't cover, classroom projects, card-game prototypes, and everything that isn't a sport at all.

Every other template on this site knows what it is — baseball, chess-club-adjacent bowling, equestrian. This one doesn’t, on purpose. The title band is a text field. Type “CRICKET” and it’s the sport we haven’t built yet; type “INVENTORS” and it’s a classroom set; type “LEVEL 12 PALADIN” and it’s game night. Leave it empty and the card says TRADING CARD, which is honest.

Everything else works exactly like our sport cards: five designs — Classic, Circle Badge, Split Halves, the photo-aging Vintage Card, and the three-panel Triple Split — switchable right on the page, with your typed details and photo carrying across designs. The two designs that normally hold a sport icon simply don’t here; the layouts close over the gap. The PDF is generated in your browser: nothing uploads, no watermark, no account.

Four identical blank trading cards printed 2x2 on one US Letter sheet, each 2.5 by 3.5 inches with the photo above a name and details barMost popular
Blank Trading Card — Standard Size
The classic 2.5″ × 3.5″ trading-card size, four per sheet — the same footprint as every card in a binder sleeve or a top-loader.
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One enlarged blank trading card centered on a US Letter sheet at 3.5 by 5 inches, photo above the name and details
Enlarged Blank Card
3.5″ × 5″, one per page. The keepsake size — frame it, gift it, or pin it to the classroom wall of fame.
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Nine blank trading cards in a 3x3 grid on one US Letter sheet, a separate photo and name on each
Blank Card Set — 9-Up Sheet
Nine different cards on one page — a whole classroom unit, a game deck prototype, or the entire cast of characters.
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Same size, different world

Artist trading cards (ATCs)

An artist trading card is a miniature original artwork made to a single fixed rule: it measures 2.5″ × 3.5″ — the same footprint as the baseball card in a shoebox, and the same footprint these sheets print. By long-standing convention ATCs are traded rather than sold, usually in small numbered editions, which is why the back matters as much as the front.

What this page gives you is the card, not the art. That distinction is worth being plain about, because it decides how you use it:

  • Working on paper. Print the standard sheet, cut along the gutter, and you have four card-stock blanks at exactly ATC size to draw, paint or collage on.
  • Working from a scan. If the piece already exists, photograph or scan it and drop the image into the photo slot. The layout frames it and sets your title and name in type.
  • The back. The card-back builder prints the conventional ATC label — artist name, title, edition number, date, and a way to reach you — positioned to line up with the fronts on a re-fed sheet.

Because every card on the 9-up sheet can differ, a single page can carry nine cards of an edition, or nine different pieces for a swap.

One template, many jobs

What people actually make with a blank card

We watched what people typed into our sport-card makers for a year, and a steady stream of it was never sports. This page is for that stream:

  • The sport we haven’t built. Cricket, rugby, water polo, badminton, esports, fencing. Type the sport into the card title and it is a sports card — this is the blank sports card template, with nothing pre-printed.
  • Classroom sets. The historical-figures unit is the classic: one figure per student, portrait in the photo slot, era in the title, claim to fame in the subtitle. Also works for elements, planets, book characters, and vocabulary words.
  • Card-game prototypes. The 2.5″ × 3.5″ size fits penny sleeves and deck boxes, so a printed test deck shuffles with the real thing. Card type in the title, cost in the number field, keyword in the subtitle.
  • Family and office cards. Grandpa’s rookie card for his 80th. The new-hire card for the team wall. The dog. The Vintage Card design with the sepia wash was built for exactly this photo.
  • Clubs that keep score. Chess club, debate team, robotics, quiz bowl — teams with seasons and standings and no template anywhere. Title band takes the club, number field takes the board or seat.
Two-sided cards
Design the back of the card
A table with rows and columns you name yourself — stats for a sport, facts for a figure, rules text for a game card — printed on the reverse. On a blank card the back is half the idea.
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Frequently asked questions

Is this really a blank trading card template?
Blank in the sense that matters: nothing on the card is fixed. You type the card title (the band where our sport cards say "BASEBALL"), the name, the team-or-group line, an optional number, and an optional subtitle — and add any photo. No watermark, no sample text that survives to print, no signup. What it is NOT is an empty rectangle: the five layouts handle the design work so the card looks printed, not homemade.
Can my class make trading cards of historical figures?
That is one of the most common uses. Teachers assign one figure per student — the photo slot takes a portrait or painting, the card title takes the era ("CIVIL WAR", "INVENTORS", "ANCIENT ROME"), the name field takes the figure, and the subtitle takes their claim to fame ("Aviator", "16th President"). The 9-up sheet prints a whole unit's worth on a few pages, and the card-back builder adds a facts panel — born, died, known for — on the reverse.
Can I use it to prototype a card game?
Yes — the 2.5″ × 3.5″ size is the standard CCG footprint, so printed cards fit ordinary penny sleeves and deck boxes over your existing cards. Prototypers use the card title for the card type ("CREATURE", "SPELL", "EVENT"), the number field for cost, and the subtitle for a rules keyword. The 9-up sheet is the fast way to run off a test deck; the card-back builder makes a shared back so the deck is uniform face-down.
What sizes do the blank cards come in?
Three: standard 2.5″ × 3.5″ (four per US-Letter sheet — the universal trading-card size), an enlarged 3.5″ × 5″ keepsake (one per sheet), and a 9-up sheet where all nine cards can be different. All are PDFs sized for home printers on US Letter card stock.
Which sports can I use this for?
Any of them — that is the point. We build dedicated templates for 26 sports, each with its own artwork, but this blank version covers the sport we have not gotten to yet: cricket, rugby, badminton, water polo, martial arts styles we do not carry, esports. Type the sport into the card title and the card is as much a sports card as any of the others — this is the blank sports card template people ask us for, without the sport pre-printed.
Can I use this as an artist trading card (ATC) template?
The size is already right — an ATC is 2.5 × 3.5 inches, exactly what the standard sheet prints, four to a page. Be clear on what this does, though: it prints the card, it does not make the artwork. Artists use it two ways. If your piece is physical, print the sheet, cut the blanks and work directly on the card stock. If you have scanned or photographed the piece, drop that image into the photo slot and the layout frames it. For the reverse, the card-back builder prints the conventional ATC label — artist, title, edition number, date and a contact line. ATCs are traded rather than sold by convention, so most people run a small numbered edition.
Is there a vintage-style blank card?
Yes — the Vintage Card design ages any photo with a sepia wash you can switch off right under the photo, a circular photo window, and a lowercase serif name across a crimson-and-gold card. On a blank card it is the family-keepsake move: a grandparent's army photo, a 1970s wedding shot, the dog. No real card brand is imitated.
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All 26 Sport Card Templates
If your sport IS one we cover, the dedicated template comes with its own icon set and artwork.
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Print the reverse side — leave it truly blank, add a name-and-number back, or an ATC artist label; stats tables one click deeper.
Baseball Cards
The original — the template family this blank card grew out of.
New here? Start with the guide
The full sports-card printing guide
Paper choices, cutter vs. scissors, three card sizes side by side, and what each costs to print at home.
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Last updated: August 14, 2026  ·  by David Nelsen — for the cards that aren't any of our 26 sports, and the ones that aren't sports at all.